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Roger B. Taney

Jacksonian Jurist

Charles W. Smith Jr.

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 07/2018
Pages: 255
Subject: Biography and Autobiography | University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78081E+12
eBook ISBN: 9781469644202

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Smith describes the political ideas of Chief Justice Taney and discusses his contributions to American constitutional law. Taney is revealed as a socially minded jurist who believed in the power of the whole people to regulate the affairs of life for the common good. As a political leader, Taney belongs in the democratic line that runs from Jefferson to Franklin D. Roosevelt; as a jurist he is a forerunner of Holmes and Brandeis. Originally published in 1936.

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